From Florida News 4 (via Fark.com)comes this startling revelation that telemarketers not only harass you, but if they're calling you on behalf of a charity or some other noble cause the telemarketing company usually keeps up to 90% of the money they generate.
http://www.news4jax.com/news/18615210/detail.html
Folks, if you have to give to a charity, and I DO recommend you be charitable whenever possible, do your research and try to make sure you're not helping to pay some charity exec's $130,000 salary or year end bonus. Plus, if it's a telemarketer, just say no out of principal remembering that the BEST charity is helping your FELLOW man (as locally as possible)and not some jerk from a phone bank from who the hell knows where.
Finally, it should go without saying that if anyone telemarketer, corporate phone bank, or especially collection service calls and harasses you about giving them your account number over the phone don't just say "no", but say "Fuck No!"- then either handle it by a check in the mail, or pay the bill as locally as possible. Lately "collectors" have been known to not only take the amount due them from your account, but to do so a number of times.
WAKE UP!
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